NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 13 Apr 2001

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – April 13, 2001

No significant effects noted on any spacecraft from continued elevated
solar/geomagnetic activity.  All observed effects have

been noted in the past and have not resulted in adverse conditions
on the spacecraft.  Additional information on the current state of
the space environment can be observed on:  http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

The CPU-A CIU Timing Fix flight software patch for NOAA-16 was successfully
uploaded and enabled yesterday.  CPU-A

performance will be monitored for a period of time before it is re-enabled
as a viable backup to CPU-B.  The POC for this

operation is Jim Walters/EMOSS Engineering.

NOAA-16 recorder 4A performance has been suspect over the past 24 hours. 
During supports on revs 2861/W,  2864/F,

2870/F, and 2871/F, the CDAs could not retain both bit sync and frame
sync on two different data sets from DTR 4A.  Two

data sets (one LAC and one GAC) were lost.  Fortunately, a LAC4A
was successfully received this morning at 1209Z.

Recorder telemetry looks completely nominal (no limit violations) throughout
the whole period of suspect performance.

Engineers will continue to investigate the failures (reviewing spacecraft
and ground system performance), monitor continued

DTR 4A performance, and work with scheduling (if required).

NOAA-10 rev 75749/F at 1546z on April 12:   Sent CMD PMCTL
3C7F as per SCP to re-enable PMS charge state

monitor (seasonal configuration change).

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

GOES-8 East/West station keeping maneuver #34 is rescheduled for next
Tuesday April 17 at 2001Z (yesterday’s maneuver

has been canceled due to weather imaging needs by the NWS).  The
commanded thruster firing duration will remain 7.0

seconds.  GOES-10 will provide full disk imaging for approximately
2 hours during the GOES-8 maneuver period.

At 1139Z and 1146Z on April 12, GOES-10 frame breaks were observed and
attributed to RFI (reason unknown).

To review the imaging schedules for the GOES-8 and GOES-10 spacecraft,
refer to:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/SSD/GOES/eclipse.html to identify images canceled

to satisfy instrument keep-out-zone (KOZ) requirements.

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

 

Questions or comments to Tim.Walsh@noaa.gov